Trust Stock List

SDJR 7F 2-8-0 No. 88

The Trust's largest and heaviest museum exhibit is former SDJR 7F 2-8-0, No. 88, built in 1925. Restored from scrapyard condition between 1969 and 1987.

Ruston & Hornsby 0-4-0 diesel-mechanical locomotive.

Painted orange, this little diesel was built in 1942 for Cadbury's. It later moved to Bath Gas works. In full working order, it is used for shunting.
Photo © Chris Nevard

Peckett 0-4-0ST Kilmersdon.

Built 1929, this was the last steam locomotive to work the Somerset Coalfield. This locomotive is regularly steamed up to shunt the trucks in the yard.
Photo © Paul Guppy

Stothert & Pitt Steam Crane No.312

Built in about 1908 and still working well, this crane can lift up to 10 ton and is self-propelled. The crane spent its working life at the makers in Bath, adjacent to the S & D line.
Photo © Gerry Leyman

S & D Third class 5-compartment 6-wheel carriage No 114.

Built Highbridge 1890, retired by the SR (as 1423) in 1930 and converted to form a bungalow in Sussex (with No 98 under the tarpaulin at the end of the sidings; not on display). Recovered by the Trust in 1996.
Photo © Neil Pankhurst

S & D First class 4-compartment 6-wheel carriage No 4.

Built Highbridge 1886, taken out of use 1930, and converted for use as a cricket pavillion at Templecombe. Rescued by the Trust in 1986, it is in its eighteenth year of painstaking restoration.
Photo © Neil Pankhurst

S&DJR six wheeled third No.98

Built by Cravens in 1894, is virtually identical to coaches built at Highbridge and very similar to many built for the Midland Railway around that time.

Photo © Graham Bendell

London & South-Western Brakevan (Road Van) (12424)

At present in SR livery numbered 54885. Built ca. 1902, rebuilt late 1990s by SDRT volunteers.
Photo © John Cannon

London & South-Western Ventilated Van

The brown van (42106) with the sliding doors intact is from 1901. Mansell wheels (steel & wood construction).
Photo © John Cannon

London & South-Western Ventilated Van RNAD 304, given number 51171

LOH 18ft WB 11ft LSWR mixed Panter and Shepherd axleboxes, Mansell wheels, long springs, LSWR plain buffer casings. 1898 wheelsets.

London Midland & Scottish Van 37103 CCT

Built by Metro-Cammell in 1938 under Lot No. 1154, and known by the LMS as a Covered Motor Car Van.

British Railways Fruit D (W3450W)

Built to a GWR design (Y14 diagram) in 1955. Condemned in 1976 at Reading, purchased privately, then transferred to the SDRT.
Photo © John Cannon

Southern Railway Box Van S48949

built to a standard pattern between 1935 and 1949.
Photo © John Cannon

GWR 8 ton van 11451

ca. 1905. WB 9ft LOH 16ft, height 11ft. GWR diagram V12

London Midland & Scottish 12 ton Steel Van (LMS 179162).

ca. 1930.
Photo © John Cannon

Shell/BP Tank Wagon

Built in 1902 as No. 231. WB 10ft, wooden headstocks, to carry 20 ton.
Photo © John Cannon

BR(S) 12 Ton Box Van No B752355

The first vehicle to arrive on the WSR. Now in use as a stores van by Locomotive 5542 Ltd.

London & North Western Railway Covered Van

Acquired from the RNAD Gosport in 1993 as No. 335.

Military Van RNAD 229

SWR affiliations wheelset marked "LSWR Co 1886". LOH 15ft 4in WB 9ft 2in. Mixed axleboxes, all LSWR: one Shepherd's dated 1927, another Warner's Box B 9in x 4in.
Photo © John Cannon

LNWR CCT body

Now a visitor centre.

Photo © George Moon

LMS D1671

Some 31,000 of these wagons were built by the LMS at Earlestown and Derby, and for the LMS by private builders, between 1924 and 1940. They were very similar to the RCH 1923 Standard 12 ton mineral wagon design. As well as the LMS, the LNER also adopted the design as the standard mineral wagon - number built unknown, but at least 6,000. In addition, an estimated 234,000 of the RCH 1923 Standard design were built by the trade for private owners between 1923 and 1940.
Photo © Chris Nevard

NE 10 ton 424023 (RNAD 184)

LOH 15ft 10in WB 9ft 4in. LMS and LNEC 8x4 axleboxes. Self contained buffers.
Photo © John Cannon

NE 13 ton 145741 (RNAD 194)

LOH 19ft 4-plank WB 10ft LNE-N and GNR axleboxes. Buffer casings LNE.
Photo © John Cannon

RNAD 108 flat wagon

5ft 1in LOH. Fox patent pressed steel underframe. LSWR plain round buffer castings. Four LSWR Panter axleboxes. Wrought-iron open-spoke cast into hubs "Patent Shaft & Axletree Co 1877" . Panter's cross-lever brakes on double V-hanger both sides. Superstructure rebuilt with evidence of former uprights and fittings fixed to frame in positions consistent with an open wagon or drop-side ballast of 1893-7.

AD 119 Open 4-plank

LOH 15ft 5in WB 9ft 2in. Three SR(E) and one SR(B) No 7 axleboxes. Ironwork consistent with LBSCR.
Photo © John Cannon

LMS Open 4 Plank P61045

Ex-Port of Bristol Authority wagon built by the LMS in 1932. 5-planks; steel frame; full height door. Currently masquerades as S C Ruffey's wagon based at Sodor.
Photo © George Moon

Narrow gauge track, locomotive & stock

From the Ashcott Peat Works Railway, which crossed the S & D on the level.
Photo © Andrew Marsh